F@!K Dreamweaver, Time to move over to Eclipse
September 7th, 2007 | Posted in Development | 2 Comments
It has finally happened, I have managed to shake myself free from Dreamweaver. No more 100% cpu’s and general all round sluggishness. To be blunt, it has become a hot steaming pile of shit.
Even with the newer version which I trialed, hoping it would have fixed said issues, the anger which normally ensues once I have clicked on the little DW icon was still there.
I needed an editor that supported as many languages as I often develop in. Languages such as PHP, CFML, XML/XSL, HTML, CSS and several others. Having trawled through a few free and commercial ones I decided to give one I had used before another go.
Eclipse is a open source IDE which supports most of the languages I use through its plug-in architecture. Most developers are already aware of Eclipse, it wasn’t until I was forced to look elsewhere that I realised how superior to Dreamweaver it had become.
Plugins I use so far:
CFEclipse
C#
PHPEclipse
Aptana (Js, Html, Css)
SFTP
SQL Explorer
If you want to just download a version of eclipse already bundled with plugins then give EasyEclipse a go.
If you have any suggestions of plugins for web developers then let me know.
Which download version of Easy Eclipse would recommend? There’s 10 versions, and I’m confused!
It’s purely dependant on what you need Eclipse for.
For me, i would have gone for one of the “Distributions for web and dynamic languages”, most probably http://easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/lamp.html
This might help, a chart detailing what you get bundled:
http://easyeclipse.org/site/help/plugin-chart.html
I personally prefer to install what i need as and when i need it so opted to download Eclipse and install each plugin one by one.